As electric car ownership rises, we will need new infrastructure to avoid overwhelming electricity grids – including public charging station..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339237-too-many-electric-cars-charging-at-night-may-overload-electrical-grid/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

When a whale pumps its tail up and down to swim, a wave of increased blood pressure moves from the tail to the head – but a network of vesse..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339255-web-of-blood-vessels-helps-protect-whales-brains-while-swimming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Gene editing mosquitoes so they die before malaria parasites can develop inside them could stop the spread of the deadly parasite entirely, ..
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A way to make Cavendish banana plants temporarily resistant to Fusarium fungus could lead to new ways to protect them from Panama disease
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338753-bananas-threatened-by-devastating-fungus-given-temporary-resistance/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under these light conditions,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338931-earths-algae-and-moss-could-survive-under-the-light-of-another-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The brain circuitry that lets birds learn songs is active when woodpeckers drum on trees, suggesting the abilities may have emerged from sim..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338640-woodpecker-brains-process-their-own-tree-drumming-as-if-its-birdsong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus – has revealed the presence of phosphorus, t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339020-enceladus-shown-to-have-all-six-of-the-essential-elements-for-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Bit by bit, drones can print structures made of foam and cement. The technique could transform future construction sites and post-disaster r..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339096-drone-swarm-that-3d-prints-cement-structures-could-construct-buildings/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Your genes and environment play a big part in forming you, but there is an unexplored third element at play too: luck. The chance events tha..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534050-900-nature-nurture-luck-why-you-are-more-than-just-genes-and-upbringing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In heterosexual married couples, women are happier later in life when both partners work in middle age, researchers find
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339127-married-women-who-work-during-middle-age-are-happier-later-in-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People in the east of England in early mediaeval times could trace three-quarters of their ancestry to recent migrants from continental Euro
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339007-dna-records-reveal-mass-migration-from-europe-into-anglo-saxon-britain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows eight of Neptune’s moons and four of its rings – two of which haven’t been seen in mor..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339045-jwst-has-captured-an-astonishing-view-of-neptune-and-its-rings/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After being bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes, people with a certain mix of gut bacteria had much higher levels of the parasite in their..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338786-your-gut-microbes-may-influence-how-ill-you-get-with-malaria/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

India plans to introduce up to 36 cheetahs in Kuno National Park, but conservationists warn the habitat isn't big enough to support a stable..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338837-cheetahs-are-back-in-india-but-conservationists-have-doubts-over-plan/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers have built an engine based on a famous thought experiment called Maxwell’s demon, and it may help us understand how entropy is p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338655-engine-based-on-maxwells-demon-concept-may-help-us-understand-entropy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A quantum memory device can store information at room temperature – a step towards building a quantum internet that could transmit secure da..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338849-quantum-memory-device-could-make-real-world-quantum-internet-possible/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Eleven of the 20 largest economies got a C or worse on a renewable energy report card, which assessed their plans to reach net zero and thei..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338799-worlds-richest-countries-fall-short-on-renewable-energy-targets/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From conspiracy theories to black holes, ultra-processed foods to the great climate upheaval, these are the talks you don't want to miss at ..
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The brain circuitry that lets birds learn songs is active when woodpeckers hear drumming on trees, suggesting the abilities may have emerged..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338640-woodpecker-brains-process-tree-drumming-sounds-as-if-theyre-birdsong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Tadpoles of frogs, toads and salamanders eat the larvae of mosquitoes, which spread malaria
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338764-amphibian-deaths-in-central-america-led-to-malarial-mosquito-surge/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A survey of artificial intelligence researchers found that 36 per cent believe AIs could cause a catastrophe on the scale of nuclear war
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338644-a-third-of-scientists-working-on-ai-say-it-could-cause-global-disaster/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The particle physicists explain the latest thinking on what happens to the stuff that falls into black holes – and what it reveals about the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534052-900-brian-cox-and-jeff-forshaw-confront-the-black-hole-information-paradox/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Infrared images of Mars taken by the James Webb Space Telescope could help us better understand its atmosphere
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338519-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-its-first-pictures-of-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

15 per cent of food currently given to livestock and farmed fish is suitable for human consumption. By replacing this with food system by-pr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338417-feeding-farm-by-products-to-livestock-could-boost-our-food-supply/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Modern humans have a gene mutation that boosts the growth of neurons in the brain neocortex, a brain region associated with higher intellige..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2337133-a-single-gene-mutation-may-have-made-us-smarter-than-neanderthals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

44 of the 48 most populous coastal cities have areas sinking faster than the sea is rising, driven by groundwater pumping and compacted soil..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338652-most-big-coastal-cities-have-areas-sinking-faster-than-sea-level-rise/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Emerging research suggests vegan pet food may be able to keep dogs and even cats healthy and happy, reducing the massive impact that traditi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-vegan-pet-food-can-cats-and-dogs-be-happy-and-healthy-without-meat/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Squeezing nutrient-rich blood from the umbilical cord into babies who are born pale or struggling to breathe improves health outcomes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338598-umbilical-cord-milking-cuts-brain-injury-risk-for-babies-born-limp/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Around three-quarters of the tree and shrub species currently grown in cities worldwide are predicted to be at risk from hotter and drier co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338389-global-warming-could-kill-many-of-the-tree-species-that-cool-cities/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new study estimates there are 20 quadrillion individual ants across the globe, which together weigh more than all wild birds and mammals c..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338426-there-are-20000000000000000-ants-crawling-all-over-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A prototype N95 face mask with a sensor built into the breath valve appears to be highly sensitive to virus proteins in early-stage tests
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338515-smart-face-mask-could-detect-coronavirus-on-other-peoples-breath/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

High-speed cameras have revealed the extraordinary hunting technique of the Australian ant-slayer spider, which is highly successful and tho..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338467-ant-slayer-spider-catches-prey-with-acrobatic-leap-to-wrap-it-in-silk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a laboratory study, the H1N1 seasonal flu virus didn't take hold in bronchial cells containing the omicron coronavirus variant, but the f..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338446-the-omicron-coronavirus-variant-may-protect-against-flu/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Achieving a lunar outpost is important not as a means of escaping our home planet, but learning better ways to thrive on it
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534043-200-why-we-should-go-back-to-the-moon-and-this-time-to-build-a-home/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A plant-based foam mixed with hot water has worked as well as glyphosate weedkiller at removing weeds from olive groves and has also been us..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338128-plant-based-hot-foam-kills-weeds-as-effectively-as-chemical-spray/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Two regions in the ventral visual cortex of the brain are selectively activated by images of food, reflecting the importance of food for hum..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338376-brain-scans-reveal-the-areas-that-light-up-when-we-look-at-food/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Autumn leaves provide a free and easy way to make leaf mould, a useful growing medium and soil improver, says Clare Wilson
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534041-400-how-to-make-leaf-mould-to-nourish-your-garden/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In unstable times we need to think clearly about the future. There is a lot to learn from David Christian's Future Stories: A user's guide t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534040-600-future-stories-review-has-thinking-about-the-future-got-even-harder/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Several studies suggest that the number of girls starting puberty early has more than doubled amid the coronavirus outbreak - and experts ar..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338377-covid-19-pandemic-linked-to-early-onset-of-puberty-in-some-girls/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A smart way of putting together lots of nanogenerators that exploit static electricity to generate a current could open up a new kind of wav..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338341-tiny-static-electricity-generators-could-produce-power-from-waves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the sun is thought to be the closest to Earth discovered so far. It is orbited by a star tha..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338403-closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-just-1500-light-years-away/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for deliv..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338260-liquid-robot-can-split-into-tiny-droplets-and-reform-into-a-blob/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundam..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338033-dna-clocks-suggest-ageing-is-pre-programmed-in-our-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Several states in the eastern US encourage residents to stomp on spotted lanternflies that threaten grapevines and other crops. But smooshin..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338268-does-squishing-invasive-lanternflies-really-help-stop-their-spread/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Thanks to millions of farmers’ irrigation systems in Bangladesh, there is more space for monsoon water to go straight into aquifers, possibl..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338117-farmers-in-bangladesh-pump-so-much-water-it-may-help-reduce-floods/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After colliding with a tilted wall, air bubbles in water execute a backflip and hit the wall for a second time because they get caught in th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338291-bubbles-in-water-have-been-caught-doing-backflips-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and their ilk were meant to let us chat freely in a digital public square, but the firms running social media a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534040-100-stop-calling-it-social-media-these-firms-dont-care-what-we-want/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a glut of organic molecules on Mars, as well as other materials that make the dry river delta it is now ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338269-the-perseverance-rover-is-finding-more-and-more-organic-matter-on-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence model that maps the structure of molecules to their smell could help create specific food tastes or find compound..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2337588-google-ai-can-tell-what-things-smell-like-by-the-molecular-structure/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The origins of Saturn’s rings, its unusual tilt and the strange tie between the planet and Neptune have been mysteries for years. They could..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2337884-saturns-rings-could-have-come-from-a-destroyed-moon-named-chrysalis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home